Esophageal cancer: multisystem nursing management.
Esophageal cancer is a challenging disease with a multisystem impact on patients. Critical care nurses, case managers, and advanced practice nurses manage these patients through an aggressive preoperative diagnostic phase, surgical intervention, and postoperative course. Coordination of care requires collaboration, with critical care and advanced practice nurses playing a central role. Patients need close post-operative assessments and interventions to minimize complications.
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Division of Hematology-Oncology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Fitzpatrick
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D019090:Case Management; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D003422:Critical Care; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing* / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009730:Nursing Assessment